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Oh! #FootpathFriday
One photo from the ruin of the castle #neideck which we visited.
I like castles and ruins not just for their look but because they offer a huge amount of information and history!
Well happy weekend! And happy reading

Permit hurdles push up costs for AI data centers; Oracle pivoted from gas turbines to costlier fuel cells for its Project Jupiter in NM, costing billions more (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ex

Exclusive: Oracle Data Centers Face Multibillion-Dollar Cost Surprises
Building an AI supercampus increasingly means paying more than you bargained for. Oracle’s attempt to salvage a proposed $165 billion project on the rocks in New Mexico is a recent example.The cloud provider earlier this year was planning to spend billions of dollars to build its own natural-gas ...

Juvenile white sharks are already appearing along the California coastline,
fleeing warmer than usual waters in Mexico during what’s expected to be an incredibly strong El Niño.
But while shark experts say it could be the sharkiest summer in California in a decade,
they also say beachgoers shouldn’t be too alarmed as the apex predators have spent generations learning what’s on the menu.
And humans aren’t their preferred food

California braces for its sharkiest summer in a decade – but experts say don’t panic
Young great white sharks are returning in large numbers, but researchers say humans are not on the menu

@… @… oh, no worries! it ain’t load time costly but it’s definitely runtime costly 🫣

Eight days out from breaking my rib, I took my favourite bike out of the shed this afternoon for a wee ride, to see if by any chance I would be able to ride into Castle Douglas (40Km round trip) tomorrow to pick up my medicine.
I managed about two hundred metres.
The answer is 'no'.
#BikeTooter

Finally got a final client approval for this commissioned map of the Pampanga River basin / watershed. 🥳
(Rivers, coastline, and borders are from #OpenStreetMap, licensed under the ODbL 1..0)
#maps #Mapstodon

Waiting For The Sky To Empty (2026)
From two nights ago. More context & time lapse:
#SilentSunday

Finished reading "Seascraper" by Benjamin Wood.
In an early-60s English coastal town, a young shrimper works the sands to support his mother while keeping his fledgling guitar playing & singing a secret — until a film director arrives to scout the shore.
Two lives cross in opposite directions: as Thomas glimpses a way out of the mundane, the man who inspired him has doors closing around him. Bleak, then quietly hopeful.
4/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Seascraper
Longlisted for the Booker Prize, this “cinematically pl…

Trump ordered the Pentagon on Sunday to scale back annual joint military exercises with South Korea,
saying the ally declined to help with the war against Iran
and citing his good relationship with North Korea's Kim Jong Un.
Trump said in a social media post that the exercises, which began Monday, are not only costly but "send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile" to North Korea, which he said "has been unthreatening and respectful" duri…

A national poll released this week by The New York Times and Siena University found that Democrats entered the fall with an advantage of nearly nine percentage points over Republicans on the congressional ballot
— an edge similar to 2018, the last time there was a so-called blue wave.
“Republicans are panicking and are on the brink of losing the House, with the Senate not far behind,” Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, said in an interview.
But…

Who Will Win the Midterms? Republicans Are Reeling.
The party is putting up a costly defense of states and districts that President Trump won easily in 2024. And in places like Georgia, strategists wonder if it’s too late.